Failed Las Vegas bid for Amazon included stadium, library

March 9, 2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A newspaper found that Las Vegas offered to give Amazon about 84 acres of downtown property including the city library, a stadium and convention hall for the e-commerce giant’s second U.S. headquarters.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the library was seen as a research and development plaza, with a neighboring Natural History Museum and Heritage Park becoming a hotel and conference center.

The Review-Journal says it received nine pages Thursday from more than 113 pages of documents in response to a public records request.

It found the Governor’s Office of Economic Development spent $31,250 promoting the Amazon offer.